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An btw, SOME of us miss your daily opinion,comments or as some others will term rants...Your thoughts create a mind exercise,that some are simply uncapable of dealing with....Looking forward to your return, an the ratteling of small brains.....An remember Charles, a thumbs down = a small mind! ignore em....

Thanks y'all! Next (however) we have Professor Seiman from Georgetown U. telling us that the Constitution is an out dated document: WAIT! Doesn't our president claim to be a constitutional law professor as well ? Did he not SWEAR to uphold the Constitution too?

So what are our children really learning in school? That America is bad, America is oppressive and that all Ameerican heros were really just like Hitler and Stalin? Wait, what about Aid to 3rd world countries? What about Education to all? What about the Internet? Better yet what about clean water & sewer? All these people whom we are told we oppress run here to America as fast as they can? WHY? Some even pay huge sums of money to have an anchor baby here ? WHY if we are so BAD?

"...first genocide was by Columbus.; ...all whites are oppressors.; ... other ethnic groups will never have a chance in American society.; ...Thanksgiving is a celebration of a Nazi-type genocide by white people."
These are extreme, simplified, and misleading teachings. Doesn't everyone know by now that in the history of our country we have never done anything wrong to anyone? To think otherwise is simply un-American. Only simple-minded liberal ideologists would consider the effects of the actions of those who have preceded us.

"...evolutionists and Darwinists telling us about the Mayan calender."
Our country was founded by Christians for Christians and thank God every American lives like Jesus.

First off all I do think Churchill is a little batty but his statement that European incursion into the New World could be called a genocide, albeit an accidental one, is not entirely inaccurate. Historians agree that disease, the main culprit, resulted in the death of around 90% of the native population in the New World, so while Ward Churchill was a little strident in his views, his notion that Columbus' arrival in the New World spelled disaster for native populations is worth noting.

As for Robert Jensen, I assume Charles is referring to his 2001 article in which he notes that the US committed a number of atrocities in places like Vietnam, East Timor, Chile, Iraq, and Palestine -- Places where those acts were seen as acts of terror. Here is a link to Jensen's article.

I'm not sure who Charles is targeting with his assertions that higher education claims minorities don't have a chance, or that Thanksgiving is a Nazi style holiday. But no doubt he has some bit of trivia that, in his mind, translates into "higher education hates America".

But is it really reasonable to condemn higher education based upon a few random remarks. Is it legitimate to excoriate hosts of well meaning professionals based upon the politically incorrect comments of a couple of college professors. I have heard Charles complain about the tyranny of political correctness on this very page.

Oh and the natives never had wars with each other before Colombus? Hadn't even invented the wheel and had only shoes for modern transportation no horses. In fact natives where still hearding bison off of cliffs before Colombus. Once modernization and technology reached the Amercas it was up to the Native Individuals how to use it.

No offense Charles but your continued use of "higher education" as the scapegoat for all of this world's ills gets tiresome rather quickly. While it might be "convenient" for you it makes you look a little silly. Again, no offense.